“Now the minimum is until the fifth date,” she explains. “I don't have physical intimacy until at least the fifth date. So I can get to know who I'm dealing with and they can get to know me. And with my schedule, five dates can take three or four months! It just gives me a chance to get to know the person.”

I was all ready to skip "Big Brother" for its 13th season, but like Michael Corleone in "The Godfather Part III," they pulled me back in!

The eight houseguests this season included a youth minister with an eye for the ladies, a metalhead who would fit right in with the WWE (and loves Tori Spelling), a model from Texas and a VIP cocktail waitress named Porsche (of course).

This is all well and good but... wait, is that Rachel and Brendon at the door? Rachel, of course, is loved or despised by "Big Brother" fans, depending on who you ask. This season just got crazier.

We’ll say this for Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton - they’re not afraid of a little friendly competition.

Country music’s prince and princess went head to head on two network morning shows. Lambert sang on ABC’s “Good Morning America Summer Concert Series” and Shelton appeared on NBC’s “Today.”

Even while on set, the two were exchanging teasing messages via Twitter about whose appearance would garner more attention. The conversation went from cute, "watch me, not him" tweets to a battle about whether Lambert’s breasts would win out (she says she has six in total, counting her new all-girl trio Pistol Annie):FULL POST

Hide the canned cheese from Gwyneth Paltrow, or things could get ugly.

The 38-year-old actress/foodie turned up at the iTunes festival in London on Tuesday to talk cooking and good eats, and after avoiding questions from interviewer Jonathan Ross about husband Chris Martin, she explained that she doesn’t let her kids go anywhere near McDonald’s.

“I take them to Pizza Express because I think that’s much healthier,” she told Ross, according to the Daily Mirror. “Don’t tell them there are toys!”